Ivy House

[dangermows]

The Ivy is a decent little boozer, but it's a bit of a soul sucker in the summer months as it's so dark and dingy inside. It also takes the piss with its prices and relies on the bottomless pockets of the beer hipster crowd. I've been in three times in the last month and it's been absolutely dead every time.

Isn't that the deal, pay a few quid more for better drinks in a decent pub as opposed to selling shite for next to nowt and attracting the scratters?

 

[rapscallion]

To my very core

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You're defo on the Sinclair, like.

Lack of awareness.

 

[Marty Moose]

Isn't that the deal, pay a few quid more for better drinks in a decent pub as opposed to selling shite for next to nowt and attracting the scratters?

I'm sure there's a happy medium to be found between selling carling and smiths at sub two quid a pint, and selling pints so expensive that you have to forewarn the punters how much it's going to set them back before you begin to pull it. The obscure craft stuff i can understand to a point, but they charge more for your moretti's etc than restaurants do.

 

[dangermows]

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You're defo on the Sinclair, like.

Lack of awareness.

He's just used up all the irony.

 

[tunstallhill]

I'm sure there's a happy medium to be found between selling carling and smiths at sub two quid a pint, and selling pints so expensive that you have to forewarn the punters how much it's going to set them back before you begin to pull it. The obscure craft stuff i can understand to a point, but they charge more for your moretti's etc than restaurants do.

moretti (or peroni) was £5 a pint in fitsies last sunday

The Ivy is a decent little boozer, but it's a bit of a soul sucker in the summer months as it's so dark and dingy inside. It also takes the piss with its prices and relies on the bottomless pockets of the beer hipster crowd. I've been in three times in the last month and it's been absolutely dead every time.

f***ing hell lad i'd hate to hear you describe a boozer you didn't think is canny

 

[rapscallion]

He's just used up all the irony.

Your cobbled-together attempted ripostes tho, blissfully unaware.

 

[dangermows]

Your cobbled-together attempted ripostes, blissfully unaware, tho.

Russell Brand posts on here.

 

[ajthemackem]

Your cobbled-together attempted ripostes tho, blissfully unaware.

Whee's this blart?

 

[rapscallion]

The Ivy is a decent little boozer, but it's a bit of a soul sucker in the summer months as it's so dark and dingy inside. It also takes the piss with its prices and relies on the bottomless pockets of the beer hipster crowd. I've been in three times in the last month and it's been absolutely dead every time.

It's dead. They reckon they had a top....Monday, two weeks ago.

Used to be mental 2005-6.

It is a tad on the pricey side, but nothing that's going to bust the average Ashbrookian/Tunstallian.

Russell Brand posts on here.

Says Susan Boyle, above.

Aspergers? You don't half get into tunnel vision that's all. Fixated mania.

 

[dangermows]

Whee's this blart?

 

[rapscallion]

Mows resorts to the old reversal technique. The gamut.

 

[dangermows]

Russ has completely lost it here.

 

[muggboots]

Fosters is a wash, FYI.

Hadouken was okay, for £6.25; supposing they get it again.

Vedett was lit when they had it years ago. @muggboots

Aye. It was lunatic soup when they originally got it in.

I've been going there for 25 years. Bet we've sat next to each other on multiple occasions

The poster @Daddyo is/was a regular there too.

You probably hate me.

 

[Yankee Mackem]

Loved a bit of the Ivy in the 90s me. Classic pub. Haven't been for years.

 

[rapscallion]

Aye. It was lunatic soup when they originally got it in.

Lunatic soup tho.

I've a feeling it was stronger than billed.

Loved a bit of the Ivy in the 90s me. Classic pub. Haven't been for years.

It's dead, mate.

 

[muggboots]

Lunatic soup tho.

I've a feeling it was stronger than billed.

It was around 5.5% supposedly wasn't it? The difference in the clip of me compared to Guinness or normal beers over a full night suggests it was more than that.

 

[rapscallion]

It was around 5.5% supposedly wasn't it? The difference in the clip of me compared to Guinness or normal beers over a full night suggests it was more than that.

I think it was underestimated at an easy "5.2"% before it got bought out.

It had me pants down a couple of times.

 

[Ghandi Floss]

Rosedene heading same way as Barnes ... Barnes would make killing if they turned it back into a proper pub , was always the busiest of the two , pre carvery days

It’s always been shit. Kinda place where people go to have affairs.

 

[muggboots]

It’s always been shit. Kinda place where people go to have affairs.

It's like a Gala Bingo/coffee morning. Nowt goes unnoticed.

 

[Spike]

I like the ivy me, can take the dog in and the bait is quality

Wouldn't dare gan to the Rosedene or the Barnes like. Them two are absolutely bleak, it baffles me how they stay open, who is parting with their hard earned cash in them types of places?

I've never understood the gripe about prices of pints in the ivy either. If you want to pay peanuts for pissy lager get yourself to Joseph's or somat. Even if pints are a quid more than what is perceived to be an acceptable price, how many pints are you drinking on a night out to make it a concern? You might spend an extra tenner at most over the course of a night compared with sitting in some shit hole drinking bottom dollar pints

I'd rather pay the premium and have a better night. Why not just buy 8 cheap cans from asda and sit in the house? It's like people who drive 3 mile each way to fill up the car at asda or somat to save 1p per litre. Do these people not realise life is finite?